On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:46:57PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> As this old chestnut is resurfacing, maybe someone can remind me of the
> clever vi syntax to open /etc/rc.conf in the top half of the screen and
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf in the bottom? (searching on "vi" in the archives
> won't get me far... I remember reading the message though...)
>
Using nvi (the vi in NetBSD), either:
vi /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/rc.conf
:N
(use ^W to toggle `focus')
or
vi /etc/rc.conf
:E /etc/defaults/rc.conf
(use ^W again)
An alternate method, which works with any version of vi, is to read
the contents of /etc/defaults.rc.conf into the end of the current vi
sessions and delete the lines you don't want:
vi /etc/rc.conf
G
:r /etc/defaults/rc.conf
Hope that helps,
Luke.